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Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute Holds Open House

by Josiah Brown | Jan 14, 2009 2:45 pm

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DSC_2299.JPGNew Haven Public School teachers and Institute seminar leaders — members of the Yale faculty — gathered Tuesday to discuss the program generally and this year’s seminars specifically. (Pictured: (Sara E. Thomas, who teaches at High School in the Community and is a Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute school representative, speaking at Tuesday’s Open House.)

The following write-up was contributed by the program’s Josiah Brown:

Teachers Institute Previews 2009 Seminars

On Tuesday evening, January 13, the Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute held an Open House for New Haven Public School teachers seeking to learn more about this program and its 2009 seminar offerings.

The Institute’s teacher leadership, including school representatives and contacts from across the district, hosted the event at Yale’s Rosenfeld Hall for their colleagues from New Haven’s elementary, middle, and high schools.
DSC_2293.JPG(Pictured: Huwerl Thornton Jr., who teaches at Wexler-Grant School and is his school’s Institute representative, speaking at the Open House.)

The Institute is an educational partnership between Yale University and the New Haven Public Schools designed to strengthen teaching and learning in local schools and, by example and direct assistance, in schools around the country. Through the Institute, Yale faculty members and school teachers work together in a collegial relationship. Established in 1978, the Institute is also an interschool and interdisciplinary forum for teachers to collaborate on new curricula. Each participating teacher becomes an Institute Fellow and prepares a curriculum unit to be taught the following year. Teachers have primary responsibility for identifying the subjects the Institute addresses. The partnership is a way to support the district’s continuing effort to attract, develop, and retain additional qualified educators in a teaching force of more than 1000 individuals.

In 2009 the Institute is offering five seminars to participating New Haven Public School teachers:

*“Writing, Knowing, Seeing,” led by Janice Carlisle, Professor of English

*“The Modern World in Literature and the Arts,” led by Pericles Lewis, Professor of English and of Comparative Literature

*“Science and Engineering in the Kitchen,” led by Eric R. Dufresne, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, of Chemical Engineering, and of Physics

*“How We Learn about the Brain,” led by William B. Stewart, Associate Professor of Anatomy (Surgery)

*“Evolutionary Medicine,” led by Paul E. Turner, Associate Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

DSC_2300.JPG(Pictured: The Yale faculty members leading Institute seminars in 2009, left to right: Janice Carlisle, Professor of English; William B. Stewart, Associate Professor of Anatomy (Surgery); Paul E. Turner, Associate Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology; Pericles Lewis, Professor of English and of Comparative Literature; and Eric R. Dufresne, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, of Chemical Engineering, and of Physics.)

At the Open House the representatives discussed their work in planning seminars that respond to the expressed needs of teachers, and of their students, in New Haven. They talked about the rewards and responsibilities of participating as a Fellow. The Yale faculty members leading the seminars each made brief presentations, followed by informal questions and discussion.

Seminar descriptions and applications are available from the Institute’s teacher Representatives and Contacts in the schools. Printed copies of the Institute’s 2009 brochure (including the schedule) are also available in schools.

Applications, and completed principal review forms, are due to the Representatives by 12:00 noon on January 27. Seminars begin on March 3. The Institute encourages interested teachers to talk with their school colleagues who are Representatives and Contacts.

Some 1600 curriculum units that fellows, in collaboration with Yale faculty members, have written for New Haven students since 1978 are available online: http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/

(A discussion of the 2008 seminars and resulting curricular resources appears here: http://www.newhavenindependent.org/archives/2008/12/2008_new_haven.php.)

These materials address subjects from history, literature, art, language, reading and writing instruction to math, science, and health. All members of the community are invited to use these curricular resources for educational, non-commercial purposes.

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